Arts and Leisure
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1.7KOld Town Canoe, Inspired by the Penobscot People
The Old Town Canoe Company couldn’t have started in a better place when it built its first canoe more than a hundred...
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2.9KMarilyn Monroe in Connecticut: The Misfit
As implausible as Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut may seem today, it’s where she thought her most cherished dream would come true. When...
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4.7KThe Extraordinary Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
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3.0KAshley Bryan, the Maine Man Who Showed the World Black Is Beautiful
Ashley Bryan was not what you’d expect living in the Cranberry Isles, a fishing community off Acadia National Park. Born in Harlem...
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1.4KZouaves and Contrabands: Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
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